Rachel Fell Mcdermott

Biographic Data

ID1249612
NAMERachel Fell Mcdermott
GIVEN NAMESRachel Fell
FAMILY NAMEMcdermott
SIGNATUREMCDERMOTT R F
AFFILIATIONSBarnard College
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS17
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT15
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1995
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX0

  • Muslim Devotional Singing in Two Bengals

    Rachel Fell McdermottCHAPTERIslamic Ecumene2023

  • Reciting the Goddess

    Open AccessRachel Fell Mcdermott, Rachel McDermottARTICLEJournal of the American Academy…2020

  • Raising Snakes in Bengal

    Rachel Fell McdermottCHAPTERTantra in Practice2018

  • Intimate Relations

    Rachel Fell Mcdermott, Daniel F PolishARTICLEJournal of ecumenical studies2015

    precis: Even a casual reading of the biblical Psalms and the poetry of bhakti (devotion) reveals stunning similarity in style, modes, content, and focus. In this essay, we will follow two principle modes of exploration: After a historical introduction to both the Psalms and bhakti poetry, we first use the Book of Psalms to establish categories by which to examine the bhakti literature; second, we adopt the reverse tactic, looking into characteris…

  • In Memoriam

    Rachel Fell McdermottARTICLEJournal of the American Academy…2012

    Journal Article In Memoriam: Joseph Thomas O'Connell (1940–2012) Get access Rachel Fell McDermott Rachel Fell McDermott * *Rachel Fell McDermott, Department of Asian & Middle Eastern Cultures, Barnard College, 321 Milbank Hall, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10028, USA. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 80, Issue 4, December 2012,…

  • Revelry, Rivalry, and Longing for the Goddesses of Bengal

    Rachel Fell Mcdermott, Patrick McEachernBOOKInside the red box2011

    Annually during the months of autumn, Bengal hosts three interlinked festivals to honor its most important goddesses: Durga, Kali, and Jagaddhatri. While each of these deities possesses a distinct iconography, myth, and character, they are all martial. Durga, Kali, and Jagaddhatri often demand blood sacrifice as part of their worship and offer material and spiritual benefits to their votaries. Richly represented in straw, clay, paint, and decorat…

  • The Pujas in Historical and Political Controversy

    Rachel Fell McdermottARTICLEReligions of South Asia2010

    This essay uses the lens of the Bengali Sakta Pujas—public annual festivals to Durga, Kali, and Jagaddhatri—as a means of illustrating the history of English-Indian relations in miniature during the entire period of British rule in Bengal, from the mid-eighteenth century until 1947 and beyond. Each period surveyed— the late eighteenth century to the 1830s, the 1830s to 1857, 1858 through the First Partition of Bengal to World War I, the 1920s to …

  • Encountering Kali

    Rachel Fell Mcdermott, Jeffrey John KripalBOOKEncountering Kali2004

    Encountering KalÂ3⁄4 explores one of the most remarkable divinities the world has seen - the Hindu goddess KalÂ3⁄4. She is simultaneously understood as a blood-thirsty warrior, a goddess of ritual possession, a Tantric sexual partner, and an all-loving, compassionate Mother. Popular and scholarly interest in her has been on the rise in the West in recent years. Responding to this phenomenon, this volume focuses on the complexities involved in int…

  • Encountering Kālī

    Rachel Fell Mcdermott, Jeffrey KripalBOOKEncountering Kali2003

    This book explores one of the most remarkable divinities the world has seen—the Hindu goddess Kālī. She is simultaneously understood as a blood-thirsty warrior, a goddess of ritual possession, a Tantric sexual partner, and an all-loving, compassionate Mother. Popular and scholarly interest in her has been on the rise in the West in recent years. Responding to this phenomenon, this book focuses on the complexities involved in interpreting Kālī in …

  • The Domestication of a Goddess

    Rachel Fell Mcdermott, Jeffrey J KripalCHAPTEREncountering Kali2003

    Kālīghāt, the landing stage sacred to Kālī on the old course of the river Ganga at Calcutta, is regarded as an important seat of the Goddess (mahāpītha or śāktipītha) and is visited by thousands of pilgrims everyday. One particular feature of Bengali religiosity is a deep-seated devotion to mother goddesses. The most important public religious festivals in Bengal are connected with two goddesses, Durgā and Kālī, the goddess of war and victory and…

  • Encountering Kali

    McDermott Kripal, Rachel Fell Mcdermott et al.BOOKEncountering Kali2003

  • Mother of My Heart, Daughter of My Dreams

    Clinton B Seely, Rachel Fell McdermottARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…2003

  • Brahmabandhab Upadhyay

    Rachel Fell Mcdermott, Julius Lipner et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…2003

  • The Economics of Ecstasy

    Rachel Fell Mcdermott, Hugh B UrbanARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…2003

  • New Age Hinduism, New Age Orientalism, and the Second-Generation South Asian

    Rachel Fell McdermottARTICLEJournal of the American Academy…2000

    New Age Hinduism, New Age Orientalism, and the Second-Generation South Asian Get access Rachel Fell McDermott Rachel Fell McDermott Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures at Barnard CollegeNew York, NY 10027-6598 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 68, Issue 4, December 2000, Pages 721–731, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/68…

  • Chinnamastā

    Rachel Fell Mcdermott, Elisabeth Anne BenardARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1996

  • The Āśrama System

    Rachel Fell Mcdermott, Patrick OlivelleARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1995